Teresa Wynn Roseborough

Teresa Wynn Roseborough

Exec VP – General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Home Depot
Company Tenure: 12 years
Education:
University of Virginia (B.A.) Boston University (M.A.) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (J.D.)
Biography:

Teresa Roseborough became a Board Member for Hartford Financial Services Group in April 2015 and Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary for Home Depot in November 2011. Mrs. Roseborough also serves on the Board for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and the RAND Corporation Institute for Civil Justice. Before these roles, she was at MetLife, as Deputy General Counsel from May 2010 to November 2011, as Senior Chief Counsel of Compliance and Litigation from August 2009 to May 2010, and as Senior Chief Counsel of Litigation from April 2006 to August 2009. Mrs. Roseborough previously worked at what is now known as Eversheds Sutherland. Prior to that, Mrs. Roseborough had 30 years of legal experience, working for the Department of Defense in Germany, serving as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice starting in 1994, as a Law Clerk for Justice Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1987 to 1988, and as a Law Clerk for Judge James Dickson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1986 to 1987. Notably, Mrs. Roseborough was one of the main attorneys arguing for Al Gore in the litigation that followed the 2000 election.

Profile Details

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Republican Support
Democratic Support
$3,200 $39,500

Key Statements

“The last thing I would say, probably maybe more to the expected heartbeat of corporate America and our interest in shareholder value is that inequality has a direct impact on the quality of our economy. By one estimate, racial inequity alone costs our economy over $1 trillion. If we can use the legal system to help close the gaps in our economy, close the gaps in access to justice, close the gaps in access to basic human needs and rights, we can also make our economy run better and more effectively.”

“And we will be looking conscientiously at what we can do to expand our unconscious bias training to all associates and to make sure that every associate in The Home Depot feels that they have the opportunity to participate fully in all of the opportunities that The Home Depot provides.”

"Well, I think that in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, we had something of a wake up call for a number of corporations in America who stepped up to their responsibilities to ensure equal access to justice and say what more can we do? A lot of that was turning inward for us at the Home Depot and looking at our diversity programs, looking at our inclusion programs, and seeing what we could do to accelerate our efforts. I'm in particular launching a series of caring conversations to deepen the conversations we were having with each other over issues of race and how race impacts the day to day lives of our associates. And I think a lot of us learned firsthand about the impact that the criminal justice system has on some of our associates and how they experience and how those experiences differ across different racial groups. We also doubled down our support for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights to expand their very important work both in enforcing civil rights laws and also in election protection."